Married Names

[fustrated]

Since thier divorce, my husband's ex wife has been remarried 3 times in the past 5 years, yet she still has his last name on checking accounts and drivers license.
Is this legal?
How long can she continue to use our last name?
I believe she has different drivers licenses with all names on them, but can not prove.
Also she has cell phone number with our last name?

 

[LegalBeagle]

Since thier divorce, my husband's ex wife has been remarried 3 times in the past 5 years, yet she still has his last name on checking accounts and drivers license.
Is this legal?
How long can she continue to use our last name?
I believe she has different drivers licenses with all names on them, but can not prove.
Also she has cell phone number with our last name?

Ok, but what is your problem ? Do you own the copyright to the name ? Is it causing you problems somehow ?

 

[fustrated]

Problem

Yes, it has shown up on his credit report ???

 

[LegalBeagle]

Re: Problem

Yes, it has shown up on his credit report ???

Contest it the report. There is nothing you can do about her name.

 

[I AM ALWAYS LIABLE]

Re: Re: Problem

Yes, it has shown up on his credit report ???

Contest it the report.

My response:

I like that LB. It reminds of Mrs. Liable when she says, "Do it nice, the toes".

IAAL

 

[REParker819]

I have a ? about that. How could one of her bills show up on his credit report unless his name was listed on the bill as well? Thats like saying everyone with my last name would create things on my credit report.

 

[dperk]

I AM ALSO EXPERIENCING THE SAME PROBLEM WITH MY HUSBANDS X-WIFE. I CANNOT BELIEVE THIS IS LEGAL. HOW CAN ANYONE JUST PICK AND CHOOSE A NAME WITHOUT THE LEGAL PAPERWORK. I ALSO WOULD LIKE SOME ANSWERS THAT MAKE SENSE.

 

[usmcfamily]

Well, she didn't exactly "pick and choose" her name - it was a name she assumed when married to the posters husband -- at the time of divorce she had the OPTION to change it back to her maiden name or continue to carry his last name -- the decision was hers and apparently she opted to maintain his. As she remarried she would have had the option to legally change her name to her current husband's name or continue to carry the one she gained during her marriage to the original man -- apparently she took option 2. As they were married there was legal paperwork so she is not doing anything illeagal.
In addition, should I suddenly decide I wanted to have your last name instead of mine all I would have to do is petition for the name change (granted this would involve the "legal paperwork" you metion, but I would not be required to notify all people with that last name before it was granted so you would never know .....) -- should I bear a child I could simply name my child Sarah whatever-your-last-name-is and it would be perfectly legal.....we do not own our last names.
As to it showing up on credit reports - during their marriage the socials/names were legally tied and divorce doesn't always resolve this -- all you need to do is contact the credit reporting companies and provide any and all documents they request to remove the name from the report. Actually, this happens more often than you would know - and not always even to people who were/are married -- perfect strangers info can effect your credit reports .... this is why it is advisable to obtain a report on yourself occasionally and confirm all info is accurate and resolve any differences on it.
Why she is attatched to the name is her business and there is nothing you can do to force her to change it....I suggest you simply resolve the credit issues and get over it.
Good luck and God Bless

 

[Ukiah]

I AM ALSO EXPERIENCING THE SAME PROBLEM WITH MY HUSBANDS X-WIFE. I CANNOT BELIEVE THIS IS LEGAL. HOW CAN ANYONE JUST PICK AND CHOOSE A NAME WITHOUT THE LEGAL PAPERWORK. I ALSO WOULD LIKE SOME ANSWERS THAT MAKE SENSE.

If you get married, do you go to court to change your name legally???? NO, you go to the Social Security office and get new cards, you do the same at the DMV, and everywhere else. When you get a divorce, you, as the person changing your name have the right to keep or change your name in the same process as you changed it in the first place.

I for one have kept my married name to lessen confusion at my child's school & doctor's offices (and the like). When/If I remarry, I will them hyphen my new name with my previous married name, for the same reason.

No matter what, it needs to be proven to the entity to which you what your name changed that you have indeed gotten married, divorced, etc.

To change it completly to something else, you must go to court. I dropped two letters from my name and added one w/o anfy hassel, but it was only three letters that had changed in my first name.

Ukiah

 

[D. D. Lessenberry]

re: credit report/name change

My husband showed up as living in a home his ex bought in Upper Squeedunk three years after his divorce.


Also, I showed up on my credit report as having lived with my husband's parents in Oilspill, NJ, three years after having diivorced him (I assume he moved there for a while).

As was said, contest the credit report.

As to keeping/changing names, fuhgettabout it. I kept my maiden name and have yet to have any teacher, doctor, dentist(of my daughter's) address me as "Ms. Lessenberry."

They all call me Mrs. Gregg, my husband's and daughter's last name.

good luck to you